# WordLift <= 3.54.17 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Recipe Main Ingredient Update

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1333
- **Plugin:** WordLift – AI powered SEO – Schema (`wordlift`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordlift/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 3.54.18
- **Fixed in:** 3.54.18 (Update to 3.54.18 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-21)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/wordlift
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-20
- **Published:** 2026-10-21
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1333/

## Description

The WordLift plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the 'wl_update_ingredient_post_meta' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.54.17, due to a missing per-post capability check on the user-supplied recipe IDs in the Food Knowledge Graph main ingredient update handler, which only checks the generic 'edit_posts' capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to change the main ingredient (about JSON-LD) structured data of recipes they are not allowed to edit, on sites where the Food KG feature and WP Recipe Maker are active.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1333/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordlift/tags/3.54.18/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordlift/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1333/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.